Sean Dyche makes no apologies for pragmatism. Burnley’s manager wants his team to play attractive football, but not at any cost. That should be a warning to Liverpool’s free-scoring attack at Turf Moor this afternoon.

At the beginning of last season, Dyche’s team announced their return to the Premier League by beating Liverpool 2-0 despite having only 19.4 per cent possession, a record low in the top division for any winning team since Opta began keeping records in the 2003-04 season.

We’ve got to believe. Europe’s what we’re aiming forAshley Barnes

Burnley’s progress in the 16 months since that victory has been little short of remarkable; they begin 2018 sitting seventh in the table, and with genuine ambitions of qualifying for Europe for the first time in half a century. Yet although the club’s scale…